Kumba

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Such a cool theme. Great comic battle feel. I was a fan of Starship Troopers and got that vibe here in a good way. Enjoyed the effects all around and all the detail put in. So much dark humor too, the dead peep dragged around, the peep taking pictures of a bug zapping, ect... Really enjoy when parks work in details like that and don't take themselves too seriously. Great work on the giant battle robot and all the tech/weapons around the map. All the rides were pretty good even if they felt a little out of place. Overall, a great fun park. 

 

 

So the museum... I had hoped to lead a park this season and had a similar idea to MDM. Congoy suggested doing a museum and I instantly jumped on it (I should mention that the museum I have semi-planned for DR3 would not have been like this, that will be smaller and not have a coaster). Later that day, it had its channel. The main influence for the museum is the Frost Science Museum in Miami, which I have visited in the past. I went there soon after and had a fun day sketching and taking my own reference pictures. The elevators and two building footprint with bridges come directly from it. The rest is either from various other museums we found on searches or custom. We stayed pretty true to the day 1 planning, just the building itself never became the "architectural gem" I hoped for. Terry was excited by the idea and it was decided early that he would focus on interior exhibits. I messed with the coaster layout for about a week before the final version was in place early in the build. Congoy did some revisions on the layout and I would say Momentum's layout was a true 50/50 effort by us. Terry did a good amount of the supports, most notably the turnaround supports over the roundabout. 

 

The team almost immediately tried to figure out a way to have the switch track operate. Congoy drafted a prototype of the hack while Splitvision created the CTR and discovered the spacing properties to make it all work. Once the CTR was ready, Congoy integrated it on the map and did the remaining coaster timings/hack with the door (CTR from Levis) and show scene. He's got to go down in H2H history as one of the best last round picks ever. He's been awesome! Otter joined as a perfect fit to round out the 10-point lineup. 

 

It might not have been too wise for me to lead this or take on such an ambitious project. I am a teacher at an alternative school and work with 3rd-5th grade students, most of whom have histories of serious behavior issues. That job was my top focus and I had a good school year. Still, I often had no energy to build on weekdays and I had only one holiday off during the whole build. I picked up the slack on weekends and would build for many hours. I was pretty focused on the macro and might have done the entire exterior of the two main buildings (Terry did the entire Planetarium).

 

To some extent, we ran out of time on this, even with the extension. Terry built for insane hours to get it done and so did Congoy. I was amazed when they would reply on discord that they were still building at hours that seemed crazy. Myself, I was taking naps to have more energy to build, but just skipped them in the last week to try to be as determined as my co-builders. I would have loved to have another week to add layers of detail. I still cringe a little at the huge building exteriors I placed. I did not have the time to add to them when other things had to be done like having nice rooftops (mostly done by Terry and Congoy) and a finished Earth Science exhibit. There are other gaps too and I hope to fill them after the contest, just for fun. Despite having so much else going on during the build, I loved this project and hope to revisit it someday.

 

The 29-21 loss... I think I can safely say I am one of the most competitive people at NE and I want to win. It being close feels like a bit of a consolation, but really wanted to lead my team to a win. I feel some letdown, mostly because I had small amounts of time to build. Still, this is freakin H2HX and we put out a park that was competitive with one of the best parks of the contest. I am very proud of the 42% we earned over J K's squad. We took on a massive task and mostly pulled it off. 

 

Thanks to our whole team for help and feedback. Kenos was amazing with his ability to answer all our CTR requests which I think were a huge help all over the map. Levis provided the QR code and made the website and in general was very dedicated to helping with everything. BSG did some great work on all image related needs. Split did quite a few CTRs and some hacking tests. X97 was great with the object requests and made the cinder/storage bins walls happen. The whole team was great with feedback and encouragement. Biggest thanks to Terry, Congoy and Otter. They were outstanding partners on this and dedicated to getting it done.